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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 4
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Eliphaz reproves Job, asking such questions as: Are the righteous cut off?  and, Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Then</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 2: 11; D&C 121: 10 (7-11).">Eliphaz</a> the Temanite answered and said,
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<i>If</i> we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?  but who can withhold himself from speaking?
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Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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<i>Is</i> not <i>this</i> thy fear, thy <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 3: 26.">confidence</a>, thy hope, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="job/4/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 1: 1.">uprightness</a> of thy ways?
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Remember, I pray thee, who <i>ever</i> perished, being <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 10: 13; 1 Ne. 22: 19; Alma 14: 11.">innocent</a>?  or where were the righteous cut off?
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Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Harvest.">sow</a> wickedness, reap the same.
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By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 58: 6.">teeth</a> of the young lions, are broken.
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The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image <i>was</i> before mine eyes, <i>there was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hel. 5: 30 (30-31); D&C 85: 6 (6-7).">silence</a>, and I heard a <sup>b</sup><a href="job/4/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 19: 12 (11-13).">voice</a>, <i>saying,</i>
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Shall mortal man be more <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Justice.">just</a> than God?  shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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How much less <i>in</i> them that dwell in houses of <sup>a</sup><a href="job/4/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Man, Physical Creation of.">clay</a>, whose foundation <i>is</i> in the dust, <i>which</i> are crushed before the moth?
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They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding <i>it.</i>
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Doth not their excellency <i>which is</i> in them go away?  they die, even without wisdom.
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